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Originally posted by dyrodium:

So our interstate dudes are all lined up, where are the NSW guys at?
*tumble weed rolls past*

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Lmao too poor. Ill pledge at the last second XD
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Originally posted by dyrodium:
Awesome seano, i've got welches GF lined up for photography and will sort a dedicated filming area too, even if its only on my camera (still 1080p).

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^ what state are you moving to?

ill pledge, Angus, dont you worry. Im just throwing every spare cent into my current crazy car related project this month
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Originally posted by Jaemus:
^ what state are you moving to?

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Botbitz will be sponsoring some prizes for the Robot Serial Killers 2012 event!

1st Place Beetleweight - A pair of ESCheap10 Premium ESC's
1st Place Antweight - A pair of ESCheap6 ESC's
Coolest / Most Interesting Robot - A pair GM12 gear motors of their choice

Now get your entries and robots ready!
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Would it be useful to have a video projector for the event? It would make the antweights better viewing and we might use it for background info and replays of other events.

Will we see some entries from you this time Nick???
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Serial space have a decent projector and pa system they were just too disorganised to set it up last time... ill post up a floor plan soon in the planning thread so we can try to fix the visability issues

Cool, I can help out with that if needed.

I am also looking at upgrading the ant arena:

* 1 metre square
* 400 to 500mm high
* bisalloy base
* small two stage trapdoor
* the entire top hinges for better access
* designed to fit thru doors!

A platform type thing with walls that sits in the beetle arena would be great for this event. Saves needlessly having two arenas in that little room
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That would save space, but then there would be a delay each time we had a new round in each weight class while the arena was changed.

With two arenas there is no delay and they can be run in parallel or used for testing while the other weight class is running. The ants would also get lost behind the bumpers more easily - in my new design there are no bumpers at all so the bots can't move out of sight.

Yeh i meant have a seperate little segment inside the arena at ~1m^2 so all the spectators can see them easily without crawling over each other.

Only 10 people at best could see the arena last time from one and a half sides of it. Just don't see us being able to have room for something twice as big again is all when there will likely be more competitors and spectators.

But no doubt we need a new ant arena for events we have actual space at
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Why not just put the arena on top of the other arena, now you have a decent roof?
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I must be missing the point - the beetle arena's roof is above most people's line of sight.

If I get around to building a new arena, I will make a trolley for it so we can wheel it out and people can get around 3 sides for better veiwing. If we can get a live feed to a projector, the small bots will be far more interesting to the crowd.